If there is a 9/11 scale attack on US soil in the next 24 months

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Danzig

my point is that over the years, many people everywhere have dealt with things like you just described. it's not confined to d.c., new york, or oklahoma city for example. not everything is a terrorist attack, but there's tragedy unfolding in one way or another all over. people get it.
i used to live just outside d.c. had an uncle, and later my brother on the fire dept (my bro was there with the pentagon stuff), my dad was a cop in d.c. for 20 years, so he can tell you first hand knowledge about all that-we lived thru some scary times up there. and that's my point. i live here, in mid america now, and i know how people felt and reacted to okla city, and to new york. they might not have been breathing in the smoke, but they get it. and that's the point i'm trying to convey. people shouldn't belittle others and say they don't get it just because they weren't standing right there next to you. by 'you', i don't mean you specifically...

I never thought (and I don't think I stated it either) that people outside of NY were unsympathetic or didn't get the severity of what happened. It did affect everyone in the country. I thought people were going to start blowing themselves up on buses, like in Isreal. Or blowing up malls and so on. It was a very confusing, scary time.
I really believe that the whole nation and even parts of the world mourned with everyone affected by the tradgedy. People say, I can imagine what it was like. That's when I say, unless you were there you have absolutley no clue what the F went on. You might have had a good view from TV, but there were people who were on the playing field who were running for their lives. They really don't know how scary and dire the situation was.
The same thing goes for Oklahoma City and even the tsunami. We all felt for those people that lost loved ones and the ones who expierenced and lived through it. But we have no idea the hell that they all went through, because we weren't there.